News

February 2015
Congratulations to former postdoctoral research fellows ShijunHu, Yongming Wang, and Ping Liang for receiving the China Recruitment Program of Global Youth Experts. They join 2 other former postdoc fellows Feng Lan and Ning Sun as a select group of talented scholars returning to China to become faculty members.

Apr 2014
The 2014 ASCI/AAP Joint Meeting program will feature lectures by accomplished researchers who discussed state-of-the-art advances in their respective fields. CVI members Dr. Brian Kobilka is an invited speaker, Dr. Mark Nicolls is inducted as ASCI member, and Dr. Joseph Wu is elected as ASCI Councilor.

Novemeber 2010
Dr. Wu is one of 85 researchers named by President Obama to receive the Ealry Career Awards for Scientists and Engineers. This is the highest honor that the US government awards to science and engineering professionals in the early stages of their independent research careers.

September 7, 2009
Research by the Wu Lab in collaboration with Dr. Michael Longaker is featured in CNN. The article highlights the use of minicircles to reprogram fat cells into pluripotent stem cells.

August 19, 2008
Research by the Wu Lab on the potential of stem cell rejection is featured in Scientific American news. The article highlights our study on the use of noninvasive molecular imaging technique to track the fate of transplanted hESCs and monitor the effects of immunosuppressant therapy.

July 2008
Dr. Wu joined the editorial board of Circulation: Cardiovascular Imaging.

June 24, 2008
Zongjin Li has been awarded the Mitzi and William Blahd, MD Pilot Research Grant from the Education and Research Foundation for the Society of Nuclear Medicine for his proposal entitled "Molecular Imaging of Stem Cell Differentiation and Function".

March 31, 2008
Zongjin Li has received the ACCF/Bristol-Myers Squibb Travel Award from the American College of Cardiology. .

June 5, 2007
Kitch Wilson received the prestigious Stanford Bio-X Program Graduate Student Fellowship to support his innovative proposal on a project looking at microenvironmental niches of stem cell homing.

May 30, 2007
Mei Huang received a 2-year American Heart Association Postdoctoral Fellowship.

May 10, 2007
Dr. Wu was awarded BWF Career Awards at the Biomedical Sciences.

March 13, 2007
Feng Cao received the 2006 Best Basic Science paper in journal of Circulation for her paper, "In Vivo Visualization of Embryonic Stem Cell Survival, Proliferation, and Migration After Cardiac Delivery".